The latest Safari has a feature I absolutely love. It won't run ANY Flash content without user approval. It's a mild annoyance - an extra click - when you do want to see the Flash content but it's a huge time and energy saver to stop all the crap you don't want.
Many websites are programmed to bombard you with multimedia content whether you want it or not. In the old days of low bandwidth, this was incredibly annoying because it slowed access to what you wanted while all the crap loaded. Now that's not really the problem for most people. Now it's just noise and garish content that you often don't care for. "Click bait" sites are awful in this regard. They tease you with a photo they know will draw eyeballs and then bury you in surrounding ads with sound and video. Your processor and fan start working overtime just because you wanted to see the photo that baited you, which is rarely there anyway.Sorry if I sound stupid. What is the advantage? I open just what I want to browse. Sure I am missing something too evident.
Safari just now added that feature?The latest Safari has a feature I absolutely love. It won't run ANY Flash content without user approval. It's a mild annoyance - an extra click - when you do want to see the Flash content but it's a huge time and energy saver to stop all the crap you don't want.
Youtube also has this problem where it starts playing ads at the same time it tries to load the video you want to see.Many websites are programmed to bombard you with multimedia content whether you want it or not. In the old days of low bandwidth, this was incredibly annoying because it slowed access to what you wanted while all the crap loaded. Now that's not really the problem for most people. Now it's just noise and garish content that you often don't care for. "Click bait" sites are awful in this regard. They tease you with a photo they know will draw eyeballs and then bury you in surrounding ads with sound and video. Your processor and fan start working overtime just because you wanted to see the photo that baited you, which is rarely there anyway.
Sorry. My fault; the OP said "mute". Now it makes sense to me.Many websites are programmed to bombard you with multimedia content whether you want it or not. In the old days of low bandwidth, this was incredibly annoying because it slowed access to what you wanted while all the crap loaded. Now that's not really the problem for most people. Now it's just noise and garish content that you often don't care for. "Click bait" sites are awful in this regard. They tease you with a photo they know will draw eyeballs and then bury you in surrounding ads with sound and video. Your processor and fan start working overtime just because you wanted to see the photo that baited you, which is rarely there anyway.
by Aaron Carman
by Aaron Carman
by Jake Hertz
by Jake Hertz